Word: staid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Townes thought that an honest staff-and a few pay raises-would work better. Last week, five months after Townes came to town, the better and cleaner Times reached 47,077 circulation (up 4,000). In news coverage it was giving the staid Tacoma News-Tribune a run for its money. Crusading editorials against gambling in taverns and the poor transit system had ousted the canned variety, and Townes was eyeing the circulation. territory of the nearby Seattle Times...
...paper had become a weekly, but the harried atmosphere of news reporting was not apparent until the rival Harvard Herald began putting out extras on sports events which Boston papers credited with being "the fastest ever known in the newspaper world." The more staid CRIMSON met this threat to supremacy by amalgamating with the Herald in a bargain which gave the CRIMSON every conceivable advantage, and henceforth it became a daily...
...line companies, American and Baldwin, to making war equipment for the military, and steam locomotives for U.S. railroads. Thus, war's end found G.M. well ahead in diesels. Of some 5,000 diesel units now in service, two-thirds have been built by G.M. Into the once staid locomotive industry, G.M. has also breathed some of the dog-eat-dog competitive spirit of the auto industry. One of its tricks was to build its diesel-drawn Train of Tomorrow (TIME, June 2), to sell diesel travel to passengers and engines to railroads...
...queer," Edward Lear once wrote to a friend, "that I am the man as is making some three or four thousand people laugh in England all at one time. . . ." But to staid and sensible Victorians, who seemed to have a safety-valve passion for nonsense, there was nothing queer about it. Edward Lear's volumes of limericks, his world of Jumblies, scroobious snakes, runcible spoons and Dongs with Luminous Noses, set English gentlemen roaring into their port and schoolkids giggling into their bedtime hot milk...
...Stand by Your Posts." One enterprising reporter discovered why. In a grim moment of Chinese history, Peiping's staid Municipal Council had had a grimly amusing idea: a whole battalion of potential